Unnatural Keys

Nature doesn’t come with identifiers.

DALL-E — “A photograph of meat in the shape of a key on a solid background”

At time of writing, I am working in the music industry. And as part of that work, we want a database of all of the songs in the world so that we can properly identify unknown songs and provide attribution so that folks can get paid appropriately. It is a noble goal with some interesting engineering challenges.